Politics quotes

“the purpose of war is to serve a political end but the true nature of war is to serve itself.”
Denzel Washington - Hunter

“The idea of writing anything about Europe and Brexit filled me with an earthquake of a yawn.”
Heathcote Williams

“I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.”
Jerry Lewis

“- Shtarker: Too bad about all the dead movie stars.
- Siegfried: Yes. What will we do without their razor-sharp political advice.”
Ken Davitian - Shtarker
Terence Stamp - Siegfried

“Political correctness is tyranny with manners.”
Charlton Hesto

“- Deputy Pell: You got no right to be here. This is a political meeting.
- Ward: Doesn't smell that way to me, Deputy.
- Deputy Pell: It's a damn political meeting, Hoover Boy.
- Ward: Oh, it looks like a political meeting, but smells more like Klan to me... with or without the Halloween costumes.”
Brad Dourif - Deputy Pell
Willem Dafoe - Ward

“This isn't the Republicans versus the Democrats, where we're in a hole economically or... or we're in another war. This is more crucial than that. This is down to the line, folks, this is down to the line. There can be no more divisions among the living!”

Richard France - Scientist

“- George Barley: Why doesn't the government do something, that's what I'd like to know.
- Mr. Krull: What can they do, they're only people just like us.
- George Barley: People my foot, they're democrats.”
John Brown - George Barley
Olan Soule - Mr. Krull

“Politics is about divisions. Wherever you come in on the subject, there are divisions.”
Vanessa Redgrave

“Cultural change always precedes political change.”
Tessa Thompson

“- Col. Mathieu: It's not warriors we need.
- Journalist: Then what?
- Col. Mathieu: Political will, which is sometimes there and sometimes isn't.”
Jean Martin - Col. Mathieu

“I belong to an unlucky generation, astride between two worlds and ill-at-ease in both. And what is more, I am completely without illusions. Now, what would the Senate do with me, an inexperienced legislator who lacks the faculty for self-deception, an essential requisite for wanting to guide others. No, I cannot lift a finger in politics. It...” (continue)(continue reading)
Burt Lancaster - Prince Don Fabrizio Salina

“It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I'm not a politician.”
Barkhad Abdi

“I could write a reboot sequence and shut down the entire system. And at that point... you could encode a new president.”
William Fichtner - John Carlyle

“- Joanne Herring: Why is Congress saying one thing and doing nothing?
- Charlie Wilson: Well, tradition mostly.”
Julia Roberts - Joanne Herring
Tom Hanks - Charlie Wilson

“You are, all of you, amateurs. And international affairs should never be run by gentlemen amateurs. Do you have any idea of what sort of place the world is becoming all around you? The days when you could just act out of your noble instincts, are over. Europe has become the arena of realpolitik, the politics of reality. If you like: real...” (continue)(continue reading)
Christopher Reeve - Jack Lewis

“If dad's a liberal Democrat, then you'd have to say mom is the one thing more extreme. She's a guilty liberal Democrat.”
Natasha Lyonne - DJ

“- Philip Kimberley: I was going to get a Cabinet post. I might even be Prime Minister by now.
- Boris Medvachian: If you should go back to England now, you'll not get five years in the House of Commons, you'll get probably thirty years in Brixton jail.”
Sir Michael Caine - Philip Kimberley
Morteza Kazerouni - Boris Medvachian

“Remember the first rule of politics. The ballots don't make the results, the counters make the results. The counters. Keep counting.”
Jim Broadbent - William 'Boss' Tweed

“Mum's throwing a Christmas party slash political rally. It's like the G8 summit with Scotch eggs.”
Jim Broadbent - Dad

“We are trying to save people's lives! These are the stakes and I'm not going to stand by and watch as this nation falls apart. This is no longer an election. This is a crisis.”
Sandra Bullock - Jane

“Trust? Gentlemen, you seem to have forgotten that our chosen career is politics.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Thaddeus Stevens

“The movies are the greatest political fact in the world today.”
Darryl Francis Zanuck

“Rugby is a very rough game, almost as rough as politics.”

Morgan Freeman - Nelson Mandela

“You should try running a country for a day. It's not all making war and smashing dissidents, you know. It's hard work.”

Timothy Dalton - Boris Pochenko